Charlie Bull

Who was Charlie Bull?

Charles Harry Bull was an English cricketer who played 175 first-class matches between 1929 and 1939, first for Kent and later for Worcestershire.

After having made a number of appearances for Kent's Second XI in the late 1920s, Bull made his first-class debut against Surrey in July 1929; he scored 23 in his only innings and sent down three overs for 19. He played a further two first-class games that season, and another one in 1930, but had no success and left the county at the end of the season.

Bull's Worcestershire debut came against the New Zealanders in May 1931, when opening the batting he scored just 8 and 6, but his career for his new county truly began in 1933. In that year he made 25 appearances, scoring 743 runs at 21.85, though his highest score was only 79.

The four seasons from 1934 to 1937 were the best years of Bull's career. He passed a thousand runs in each season, making five centuries, the highest of these being the first: 161 against Glamorgan in June 1934. His most productive summer was that of 1937, when he hit 1,619 runs and hit two centuries, this being the only season of his career in which he reached three figures more than once.